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Insert old man voice "If I had things my way, making hype about anything would be punishable by death." Not going to lie. If someone ran for president on just

Insert old man voice "If I had things my way, making hype about anything would be punishable by death." Not going to lie. If someone ran for president on just that platform alone, where it's illegal to make any overblown promise/hype on tech, the contenders really need to come up with some good arguments for me not to vote for the hype killer. I'm just afraid what's going to be the next hype train. The blockchain hype train was just plain dumb. It's a super niche piece of tech with really limited uses. Still cool for that. But will never revolutionize the world. This AI bandwagon is getting out of hand. People think all AI tech is perfect 100% of the time, all the time. It's more, works 93% of the time, 23% of the time. The next hype tech... scares me what it could be.

jf- 8y ago
This is how I feel as well. Hype takes on a life of it’s own as it becomes fashionable to repeat other people’s talking points about a technology you know nothing about, have never used and have never critically considered. But that’s sort of humans in a nutshell, isn’t it?
- corodra 8y ago
  Do you also think it deals with "belief" of something new and fantastic. I might be reaching on this... and this idea is like a grand total of 2 minutes old in my head. But take crop circles. Over and god damn over, they're proven to be some bored asshole that went out with a board, some rope, and free time to make shit in a field. But every time a new one pops up, "Oh my god... is it aliens!?!?!" Every time in tech. Overblown claims are made and shown to be false or limited in scope. By "smart people" towards "smart people". But we still get "No! This will change the world!". "It might change the way we take dumps on the shitter, but not the world." "IT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD!". Or "Making the world a better place through statistically blockchain distributed interconnected AI designed silicon chips... 2.0" I mean... it's all a religion. Looking at it in another light. Heavy prayer and belief in things you probably shouldn't. Makes tech people more religious than those that are "religious". I might be reaching and ranting at this point.

jf- 8y ago

This is how I feel as well. Hype takes on a life of it’s own as it becomes fashionable to repeat other people’s talking points about a technology you know nothing about, have never used and have never critically considered. But that’s sort of humans in a nutshell, isn’t it?

corodra 8y ago
Do you also think it deals with "belief" of something new and fantastic. I might be reaching on this... and this idea is like a grand total of 2 minutes old in my head. But take crop circles. Over and god damn over, they're proven to be some bored asshole that went out with a board, some rope, and free time to make shit in a field. But every time a new one pops up, "Oh my god... is it aliens!?!?!" Every time in tech. Overblown claims are made and shown to be false or limited in scope. By "smart people" towards "smart people". But we still get "No! This will change the world!". "It might change the way we take dumps on the shitter, but not the world." "IT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD!". Or "Making the world a better place through statistically blockchain distributed interconnected AI designed silicon chips... 2.0" I mean... it's all a religion. Looking at it in another light. Heavy prayer and belief in things you probably shouldn't. Makes tech people more religious than those that are "religious". I might be reaching and ranting at this point.